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week for board and room. Ann's husband, Robert S. (Bert) Gardner, was a hoarder at their house and this is how they met. The girls helped with all the housework including washing, ironing, and sewing. Everything was made by hand because, in those days, there was nothing available in the line of wearing apparel - hesides that, money wasn't readily available. Henrietta and Ann did the dishes and made the heds every morning before they left for school. Their mother, Henrietta, was a most marvelous manager, she knew just how to encourage them and get them to work without thinking it was drudgery. She made work appear to he fun. If they were doing the dishes too slow, she would tell them to sing a faster tune so they could wash a little faster. She was a good imitator and made everything e n j ~ p i b l e . ~ The family never slept in real factory mattresses, they made their own. One of the girl's johs was to make the mattresses out of the tag wool that could not be used for cloth. They washed it in dozens of waters, that had heen heated in the sun, and then made the wool into a sort of mattress much like a feather tick. Sometimes, Henrietta would hire a woman to help her with the washing. For a while John Leigh's wife. Sarah, washed for them charging fifty cents a day for doing a big washing. Ann and young Henrietta had to wash the stockings, scrubbing them very carefully and hanging them on the fence to dry. Lehi would take Sarah home on the woodrack after she had been there all day working. When he found out she was only charging fifty cents a day, he insisted she was being underpaid and raised her salary t o n dollar." All of the starch for washing was made from grated potatoes. They made all their own clothes, quilts and bedding. They made candles, dried fruit, cleaned the lamps, made their own soap and did all the other household chores. In the summer while living on the mountain, they helped make all the cheese and butter. All these johs kept the Jont-s girls extremely busy, hut in spite of the many tasks they had, their mother was always looking for other t h i n p for them tn do that would give them new experiences. O n one ocrasion, Henrietta decided to try growing silk worms.Vresident Brigham Young favored the idea, and had sponsored earlier attempts to produce silk in Northern Utah, hut these had f-riled hecause of the cold. In 1896, the Utah State Legislature passed a measure providing fdr the appointment of a silk commission and the payment of 25 cents per pound bounty on all cocoons produced in Utah. This stimulated the silk business.' Henrietta Hintze said, "mother knew she wouldn't make any money on the silk worms, but she just wanted to keep Ann and me busy." They cleaned out two rooms in the house and sent for one ounce of silk worm seeds. They arrived in flats of newspaper with limited, hut valuable,
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week for board and room. Ann's husband, Robert S. (Bert) Gardner, was a hoarder at their house and this is how they met. The girls helped with all the housework including washing, ironing, and sewing. Everything was made by hand because, in those days, there was nothing available in the line of wearing apparel - hesides that, money wasn't readily available. Henrietta and Ann did the dishes and made the heds every morning before they left for school. Their mother, Henrietta, was a most marvelous manager, she knew just how to encourage them and get them to work without thinking it was drudgery. She made work appear to he fun. If they were doing the dishes too slow, she would tell them to sing a faster tune so they could wash a little faster. She was a good imitator and made everything e n j ~ p i b l e . ~ The family never slept in real factory mattresses, they made their own. One of the girl's johs was to make the mattresses out of the tag wool that could not be used for cloth. They washed it in dozens of waters, that had heen heated in the sun, and then made the wool into a sort of mattress much like a feather tick. Sometimes, Henrietta would hire a woman to help her with the washing. For a while John Leigh's wife. Sarah, washed for them charging fifty cents a day for doing a big washing. Ann and young Henrietta had to wash the stockings, scrubbing them very carefully and hanging them on the fence to dry. Lehi would take Sarah home on the woodrack after she had been there all day working. When he found out she was only charging fifty cents a day, he insisted she was being underpaid and raised her salary t o n dollar." All of the starch for washing was made from grated potatoes. They made all their own clothes, quilts and bedding. They made candles, dried fruit, cleaned the lamps, made their own soap and did all the other household chores. In the summer while living on the mountain, they helped make all the cheese and butter. All these johs kept the Jont-s girls extremely busy, hut in spite of the many tasks they had, their mother was always looking for other t h i n p for them tn do that would give them new experiences. O n one ocrasion, Henrietta decided to try growing silk worms.Vresident Brigham Young favored the idea, and had sponsored earlier attempts to produce silk in Northern Utah, hut these had f-riled hecause of the cold. In 1896, the Utah State Legislature passed a measure providing fdr the appointment of a silk commission and the payment of 25 cents per pound bounty on all cocoons produced in Utah. This stimulated the silk business.' Henrietta Hintze said, "mother knew she wouldn't make any money on the silk worms, but she just wanted to keep Ann and me busy." They cleaned out two rooms in the house and sent for one ounce of silk worm seeds. They arrived in flats of newspaper with limited, hut valuable,
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